Letters to the Editor
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McCAin's Strange Support For A War Started By Draft Dodgers
In the film "Patton" Karl Malden (Playing Gen. Omar Bradley) criticizes Gen. Patton (Played by George Scott) "George, I do this job because I was trained for it, You love it." Most who experienced combat in war grow to hate it. General Sherman, "War is Hell", Gen. Marshall, Eisenhower and many others. McCain falls into the 'Patton category' with his irrational support for this war. He suffered severely in our previous fiasco in Vietnam, and like a few others, still believe that war was necessary and winnable. If a battle could be lost because it was "a bridge too far" then perhaps we Americans should finally confront the awful truth that these needless foreign wars of choice "are oceans too far." There will always be a few who experienced combat who gloried in the esperience- Hitler, an enlisted grunt who held the Iron Cross, and Churchill, who while serving in the Sudan, gunned down several unarrmed enemies. After his catastrophic Dardenelles defeat he returned to the army serving in France. He wrote his wife that 'being here is like being on vacation." I imagine brandy and cigars at GHQ was nowhere near what the Tommy grunts were enduring in the trenches. The small cabal which played a major role in getting Bush to start this war had a champagne brunch the day our troops entered Baghdad to celebrate. I have yet to see any tears shed by them or at Fox News when these dire reports come back from our latest foreign misadventure. steve, usn, ww2